My Soul Refuses To Be Comforted
Prayer is not just about praise, adoration, thanksgiving or petition. God welcomes us to draw near to Him with our weaknesses, questions and doubts in prayers, so that we will ultimately be led to the truths about God’s surpassing power and love. Psalm 77 provides a map of such a prayer that ends with an assurance that God’s way through the sea is often through our simple obedience to His leading.
Praise The Glory Of God
It may be easy to praise God when He delivers us from our trials and answers our prayers. Such experiences can actually help us know God more and transform our faith. However, if we are not intentional, after rejoicing and giving thanks, we will soon be back to life as usual. Psalm 76 first looks back at God’s great deliverance of His people with praise. Then it elevates our praise with a view of God’s salvation plan for all nations in the horizon of eternity. Ultimately, it points us see how our praise of God should lead to a transformation of our own lives and draw others to Him.
Praise The Righteous Judge
Do we find it hard to praise God? Perhaps we think that praise can only come from an improvement in outward circumstances. Psalm 75 shows us that there are glorious eternal truths that deserves our loudest praise, regardless of our immediate circumstances. And these truths are magnified by the wondrous works and promises of Christ. So let us not look anywhere else, but fix our eyes on God to restore our praise, so that our delight in Him may be complete.
Have Regard For Your Covenant
1 O God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? 2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt. 3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary. 4 Your […]
God Is The Strength Of My Heart
A true Christian experience is a constant struggle for faith in an unbelieving world. Envy, doubts and discontentment may afflict our hearts when we see the wicked prosper. It is important for us to recognise our envy and know its destructiveness.
We may think that if God would just bless us more, we will not have envy. In fact, envy is not about the condition of our life, but it is about condition of our hearts – a heart that doubts the goodness of God for His own people.
In Psalm 73, we follow the psalmist’s transformation of the heart from envy to praise when he entered the sanctuary. There, he experienced the presence and sovereignty of God and discovered an eternal truth, “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”
